(January 7, 2020 at 11:42 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: For Drich, even wanting to reconcile scientific evidence with the creation account in Genesis is a big step forward, given his body of work here. Cherry-picking is unavoidable in extensive religious texts like the Bible, and cherry-picking to accommodate the old earth all the physical evidence points to beats cherry-picking to try to say it ain't so. Much is made of believers cherry-picking the good parts of their scriptures, but it's far preferable to them cherry-picking the bad parts.
I agree. It is better than YEC.
I have spoken to many YEC. They lack a lot of knowledge in science. They have this opinion that scientists are a bunch of liars trying to force atheism into the state. They point to problems in science such as Piltdown man.
They are people who are extremely sure of their religion and are extremely inflexible.
I guess some of them look into the science and get out of it. I guess some become OEC and some drop the religion altogether.
I have heard of a couple of cases of an atheist going from accepting the Big bang theory + Evolution theory to YEC. But I think those are the lying for Jesus type. Anyway, they are a rare gem
